Dalton Caldwell
@daltonc
Group Partner & Managing Director @ycombinator
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https://dalton.substack.com 28-09-2007 23:44:41
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This is my post about the Y Combinator application deadline. There are many like it, but this one is mine.
7 hours and 6 pages of notes later, Iām still freaking out about being in the same room as all of the Y Combinator group partners. So many takeaways and lessons learned from YC startup school Boston!! The best time to build and be in the world of startups is now.
Wow, just watched this, what a great epsiode by Dalton Caldwell and Lenny Rachitsky, a must watch! I don't know anyone else who knows more about startups than Dalton. Kudos to Lenny for getting so many nuggets out of him in this episode.
Weāre excited to welcome David Lieb as our newest Group Partner!
David co-founded Bump, part of YC's S09 batch. In 2013 Bump was acquired by Google, where he took Google Photos from inception to over 1B users. ycombinator.com/blog/david-lieā¦
Dalton Caldwell (Dalton Caldwell) is Managing Director and Group Partner at Y Combinator. During his time at YC, heās worked with over 1,000 startups, advised more than 35 YC unicornsāincluding DoorDash, Amplitude Studios, @Webflow, and @Retoolāacross 21 different YC batches, and racked up
When making important decisions as a founderā like what to build or how it should workā should you spend lots of time gathering input or just trust your gut?
Dalton Caldwell + Michael Seibel discuss when you should spend time validating, and when to just commit.
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This code review startup from YC W24 is getting great buzz from other founders because of how well it actually works Ellipsis (YC W24)
The video embedded on their website explains it pretty well ellipsis.dev
Turns out you could also build foundation models for biology. This is what Diffuse Bio has done to build a genAI for protein discovery. What's cool is Namrata Anand built this during the batch by hacking computation to need less with custom kernels
Day 0 of post- #YC
Obligatory celebration toast!
Itās been an unforgettable journey. Thank you so much Y Combinator, all our YC partners, especially Dalton Caldwell, David Lieb, Pete Koomen and Garry Tan š„ā»ļø e/acc, customers, investors and everyone whoāve supported in all the possible ways ā¤ļø
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